# Volker Hirsch

> Volker Hirsch is a seed investor at Advantage Creative Fund backing Software and Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Advantage Creative Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-creative-fund)
- Location: Macclesfield, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vhirsch
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vhirsch
- Website: http://vhirsch.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vhirsch

Volker Hirsch is a seed investor at Advantage Creative Fund in Macclesfield focused on Software and Apps. Volker Hirsch is the Co-Founder and Director of Blue Beck Limited. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $33k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| EdTech | 2 | 25% |
| Computer | 2 | 25% |
| Education | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 63% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Link App | The Link App is a smart, fully-featured platform that reinvents client experience across professional services. The company drives businesses forward through on-demand and secure communications between legal professionals and their clients and this is achieved through improving the firm’s client relationships with secure messaging, case tracking,and document sharing. It tackles the stigma that technology damages personal customer service with an app that enables customer experience.The Link App was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. | $450K | Seed | Aug 03, 2018 |  |
| The Link App | The Link App is a smart, fully-featured platform that reinvents client experience across professional services. The company drives businesses forward through on-demand and secure communications between legal professionals and their clients and this is achieved through improving the firm’s client relationships with secure messaging, case tracking,and document sharing. It tackles the stigma that technology damages personal customer service with an app that enables customer experience.The Link App was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. | $450K | Angel | Aug 02, 2018 |  |
| Pi-Top | pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine. | $4.6M | Series A | Nov 03, 2016 |  |
| Wonde | Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existingintegrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 31, 2016 |  |
| GamePlan Learning | GamePlan maps personalized path to new career through online learning. They offer a free and easy-to-navigate online portal and app that connects students, career explorer and job seekers with assessment tools to gauge the best career selections. They will open up access to the best online and blended courses and tools to prepare for one of over1100 careers. GamePlan offers a sage and sane solution to showcase person’s unique strengths and to find the ideal fit for targeted career. | $302K | Seed | Jul 15, 2015 |  |
| Bibblio | Bibblio helps digital publishers get the most from their content pages. Their content recommendation tools are designed to increase audience footfall, engagement and spend, directly improving site metrics and guaranteeing ROI. Bibblio's core product is an AI engine connecting millions of pieces of content based on relevance. Publishers useBibblio's tools to recirculate their content within their sites, direct users to their truly relevant promotional content and acquire new audiences by sharing traffic across their verticals. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2015 |  |
| Recurrence | Recurrence offers a software platform that allows both enterprises and educational organizations to engage and educate users. Its propriety technology allows its partners to take the next logical jump forward to identify and develop high potential talent in boardrooms and classrooms.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bellevue,Washington. | $33K | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Pi-Top | pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine. | $33K | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Emerge VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerge-venture-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-equity-finance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northern-powerhouse-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Advantage Creative Fund

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1 contacts available at Advantage Creative Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Volker Hirsch | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volker-hirsch |

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## FAQ

### What does Volker Hirsch invest in?

Volker Hirsch invests primarily in Software, Apps and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Volker Hirsch's check size?

Volker Hirsch typically joins rounds of $33k–$2.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Volker Hirsch participates in.

### When did Volker Hirsch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Volker Hirsch closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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